Victoria Fu (born 1978) is an American visual artist who is working in the field of

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and analog film, and the interplay of photographic, screen based, and projected images.

Education

Fu received her MFA from the

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a Private university, private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for ...

(CalArts), MA (Phi Kappa Phi) in art history from the

University of Southern California The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in ...

, and BA (with distinction) in art from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

. Fu attended the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 ...

and the Whitney Independent Study Program.

Career

Fu is co-founder of ARTOFFICE.org (with Julie Orser), an organization established in 2006 dedicated to artists's film and video. She is currently an Associate Professor of the Visual Arts and Co-Director of Film Studies at the

University of San Diego The University of San Diego (USD) is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic research university in San Diego, California, United States. Chartered in 1949 as the independent San Diego College for Women and San Diego University ...

. Her work has been described as questioning the "cultural and psychological spaces of viewership that define the cinematic." In

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, Seth Hawkins writes her "work transitions seamlessly from photo to film." She is a 2015 Film and Video Fellow of the

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation is a private foundation formed in 1925 by Olga and Simon Guggenheim in memory of their son, who died on April 26, 1922. The organization awards Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Gr ...

Work

''Belle Captive I'', (2013) is a video installation that uses appropriated stock footage that is transferred from 16 mm film to digital video. The piece was presented in the lobby gallery of the 2014

Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. The event began as an annual exhibition in 1932; the first biennial was held in 1973. It is considered ...

. ''Lorem ipsum I'', (2013) "is a flow of fragmentary images

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flirts with and recoil from a fully integrated, intact portrait." This digital video screened at the "Projections" program at the

New York Film Festival The New York Film Festival (NYFF) is a film festival held every fall in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. Founded in 1963 by Richard Roud and Amos Vogel with the support of Lincoln Center president William Schuman, NYFF i ...

in 2014. In 2014, her sculptural and video based abstract work was part of the Whitney Biennial exhibition in its lobby gallery. The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore had a 2015 solo exhibit of Fu's work, ''Bubble Over Green''. The Simon Preston Gallery in New York hosted their second exhibit of Fu's work in 2017. In 2022, Fu collaborated with choreography Milka Djordjevich and fellow visual artist Matt Richto put on an original show at the Getty Center. Fu's work was also part of the

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

2022 exhibit, "Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising." Fu's work is included in the collection of the

Pérez Art Museum Miami Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)—officially known as the Jorge M. Pérez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County—is a contemporary art museum that relocated in 2013 to the Maurice A. Ferré Park in Downtown Miami, Florida. Founded in 1984 as the Cent ...

, Florida.

References

External links

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Drain Magazine, Interview with Victoria Fu

Interview on the MOCA website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fu, Victoria University of San Diego faculty Artists from San Diego American women artists 1978 births Living people Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni American women academics 21st-century American women Members of Phi Kappa Phi